Sex Help for Smart People
Struggling with intimacy or sexual confidence? You're not alone. Dr. Laura Jurgens, dual-certified intimacy coach and former professor, helps you transform relationship problems into deeper connection through research-based, somatic approaches.
This podcast addresses sexual healing, embodiment, and nervous system regulation to help you overcome sexual shame and trauma. Learn how to talk about sex with confidence, improve intimacy in your relationship, and discover your authentic desires through pleasure-based methods.
Each episode delivers practical relationship coaching techniques that actually work - from healing sexual trauma to building genuine sexual confidence. Dr. Jurgens combines her expertise in somatic therapy principles with real-world coaching to help you understand why intimacy feels hard and how to make it easier.
Whether you're working through relationship challenges, want better sex, or need support with sexual healing, this show offers shame-free guidance for smart people ready to transform their intimate lives.
Topics include: sexual confidence building, embodiment practices, nervous system regulation for intimacy, healing sexual trauma, relationship communication, and somatic approaches to sexual wellness.
No ads, no product placements. Just evidence-based help for better sex and relationships.
Disclosure: expect explicit content and a fair bit of swearing!
Sex Help for Smart People
Break Free From Arbitrary Rules: Cleaning Out Your Should Closet
This week we're diving into how "shoulds" sneak in and mess up our confidence, relationships, dating, and sex lives. Shoulds come from all kinds of places (society, religion, your grandma, that 2nd grade math teacher who said you had messy handwriting...whatever). They undermine us and our relationships, often subconsciously. Every time you let a "should" in, you're criticizing yourself or others and holding up standards you may not even believe in. Today I share a fun, easy tool to help you clean out your brain and free you up from these unhelpful, cognitive distortions.
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